Elephant’s Life Saved By Split-Second Decision | Secret Life Of Elephants | BBC Earth

In Kenya, elephants sometimes pass close to human settlements which can lead to confrontation. Providing elephants with radio transmitting collars, allows scientists to monitor their movements and helps provent such confrontation, but it can be dangerous work for both human and elephant.
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Video taken from Secret Life Of Elephants (2009)
The three part series follows the lives of African elephants in Samburu, Northern Kenya, focusing on the stories of individual elephants to show the most dramatic moments of their lives. Their hidden world is revealed, from the complexities of family life and their intelligence to the depth of their emotions. The series also follows the work of father and daughter Iain and Saba Douglas-Hamilton and their Save the Elephants team, which includes tracking elephants, fitting tracking collars and developing the relationship between humans and elephants.

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